The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-02-03
WashingtO Letter.

w IL W. - OLE 80 AoOfs
The Forty. Ninth Congress will pass
out of existence with a good record,
notwithstanding what its critics said
last session, 1t may not produce
new tariff act, or stop the silver coin
age at its present rate, but it has pro-
vided against an interregnum in the
Presidential succession, it has settled
the Electoral count controversy, and
it has put into the hands of the Presi-
dent an act for the regulation of inter-
state commerce, for which the people
of certain sections have been calling
in vain for years. 1t has also attended
to some pressing needs in dozen
other directions" whatever may have
been its general conduct
During the present w0ek the Senate
has voted against woman suffrage.
voted again against the confirmation
of Recorder of Deeds Matthews, vote d
for closing the ports of the United
States against Canadian imports, in
retaliation for England's violation of
treaty obligation with regard to fish
cries, and it is now debating the ques-
ton of Agricultural Experiment Sta
tions. The House is plodding over
prosy appropriation bills.
Senator Hosr created mild sensa
tion in the Senate a few mornings
since by proposing a new rule. He Is
outraged at the irreverance of the Up
| Hnnsn nd h1ao lyo hot ha San
ate shall not be called to order nor the
Chaplain's prayer proceed at any time
until quorum be present. He said
it was ridiculous and disgraceful
spectacle, the daily delivery of the in
vocation in the presence of three or
four Senators. If religious exercises
were to be continued they should be
decorous. If his proposition should
carry in both houses it would greatly
disturb habits of long standing, and
, perhaps lead to an abolition of the
, Chaplain's office altogether.
For nineteen years the National
Wonnan's Rights Association has held
its sessions in Washington. For nine
LCCh ouSSCoSlNo WIZ
,, advocates of woman suffrage have here
J set forth their grievances, challenged
t and condemn.d d their oppressOrs, cher
ished their faith and renewed their
', vows. For nineteen years Miss ALI
) thony, Mrs. Sattuck, Mrs. Hooker,
Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Har-
D bert, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Sewell, Miss
/ q usins and others have appealed to
/ Congress for the ballot, have pressed
: the matter to q vote, have hung over
: the CALLER ,es of the House and senate
in earnest anticipation and they have
r repeatedly seen one house or the other
9 vote down their ' cause" AS they saw
y the Senate vote it down yesterday.
. The fact that sixteen Senators of the
II fifty one then present in the Senate
It Chamber voted in their favor, while
y they counted on the friendship o.
a eleven more who were absent, is con
sidered a great triumph. Miss An
b thony feels that the labOrs of a lifetime
!, are now bearing appreciable fruit. SHE
r. realizes that twenty years ago he
sr proposed Constitutional Amendmen
le would have been hooted out of tn
- - Senate with derisiOn. Ten years ag'
N it would not have Jared much peter
and five years ago she could not hav
counted upon the approving votes O
III sixteen Senators.
y, A friend of woman suffrage said T.
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- your cause is that it lacks political vi
tality. Senators come and GO, AN,
~ Representatives still more frequently
le without regard to the merits or de
ID merits of the principle of woman sui
;. frage' Could the question involves
m become a direct issue before the peopl
t. and the election of Senators and Mem
9, bers be made to turn on it, the resul
a. might be different. No one is sent t
y Congress as woman sutfragist, "con
n tinued he, "All of them come unin
structed in the matter except by thei
, own prejudices, and so they vote"
rs Miss Anthony read in convention
E the names of those Senators who vote,
80 for her bill, calling it the roll q
d honor from the Senate wing of til
ID Capitol" and then the names of thos
ID opposed, The audience applaude,
Is when she remarked that the new Sen
ator, Mr.. Farwell, who occupies Gen
Logan's former seat, cast his first vot
= in the Senate for woman.
= 1t was decided to "spot" those Sen
ators who had put themselves on rec
- ord against this bill for woman, an,
10 Miss Anthony remarked that if Sena
'e tor ingalls, should be re elected from
Kansas it would be- because the womcI
~ of Kansas were powerless to defea
It him. He would find a parry amons
IF his constituents that he had no